A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.